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UNTTED STATE RALPH E. ALFRED, OF WESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF PATENT @rrrcno J. I. WARDER, OF SAME PLACE.

NON-REF lLLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,754, dated November 2, 1897.

Application filed March 1 7, 1 89 7.

To wZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RALPH E. ALFRED, a citizen of the United States, residing at Weston, in the county of Lewis and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and useful Non-Refillable Bottle, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in non-refillable bottles.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of non-refillable bottles and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and eflicient one, which in order to obtain access to its contents will have to be sufliciently mutilated to prevent it from afterward being sold as an original package, thereby absolutely preventing any adulteration of the original contents of the bottle or the fraudu lent sale of an imitation liquid after the original contents have been used.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of' parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure lis an elevation of a non-refillable bottle constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the cap for sealing the bottle. Fig. 4 is a perspective view illustrating a modification of the sealing-cap.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

1 designates abottle receiving an ordinary cork or stopper 2 and provided at the upper edges of its neck with an annular flange or enlargement 3, forming a bulged portion at the top of the bottle and having'its inner face undercut to form an interior annular groove 4. The frangible portion 3, which is adapted to receive a metal sealing-cap 5, is further weakened by means of an exterior annular groove 6, located at the base of it and adapted to facilitate a ready fracture.

The sealing-cap, which has, its upper face flush with the upper edge of the frangible portion 3, is slightlybeveled at its lower face to fit the beveled upper edge of the same, and it is interlocked with the frangible enlarge- Serial No. 627,955. (No model.)

ment or flange by means of a substantially semicircular spring 7, composed of engaging arms and a loop connecting the arms and adapted to throw them outward.

The engaging arms, which are disposed diametrically opposite each other on the sealingcap, are arranged within perforated ears 8, which depend from opposite sides of the said cap, and the U-shaped loop which connects the arms and which is adapted to throw them outward into engagement with the interior annular groove 4 is supported by a lug 9, formed integral with the sealing-cap and located on the lower face thereof, near one edge of the same, at a point equidistant of the perforated ears. The lug 9 is provided at its outer edge with a recess to receive the U- shaped loop of the spring, and the beveled upper edge of the frangible enlargement or flangeof the bottle is adapted to compress the arms of the spring automatically to enable the sealing-cap to be readily snapped into position. When the sealing-cap is interlocked with the frangible enlargement or flange, it is absolutely impossible to obtain access to the cork and the contents of the bottle without breaking the enlargement or flange 3, and the breakage of this portion of the bottle sufficiently mutilates the same to prevent it from being afterward sold as an original package.

The cap illustrated in Fig. at of the accompanying drawings is constructed of sheet metal or similar material, lugs or tongues 8 and 9 being provided at the edges of the cap for securing the spring 7 to the same. The spring 7 is constructed the same as that heretofore described, and the tongues, which are formed integral with the cap, are bent inward upon the lower face of the same, embracing the spring near its ends and at its center.

It will be seen that the non-refillable bottle is simple and inexpensivein construction, that it is positive and reliable in operation, and that in order to obtain access to its contents it has to be sufficiently mutilated to prelargement or flange, of a sealing-cap fitting within the same and provided at opposite sides of its lower face with lugs or ears, the substantially U-shaped spring consisting of aloop portion and integral outwardly-extending arms guided by the lugs or ears and interlocking with the enlargement or flange, and 1 a lug or tongue formed integral with the cap and located at a point between the ears or lugs and loosely supporting the spring at the 10 center thereof, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

RALPII E. ALFRED.

Witnesses:

J. I. WARDER, LoUIs L. NEUBERGER. 

